Here are today's shaded clues for you 10a. Last month of spring, etc, or a name for hawthorn and it's blossom (3) 43a. School building with bedrooms or dorms and facilities for boarders. (5) 38d....
Good morning everyone - funny day here, overcast, windy, quite warm, on paper it's the end of our fire season, but I wouldn't go starting burning anything out there ....it could get very nasty !!...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 34d. Blow ball of a dandelion or a time piece with hands and face (5) 35d. Burner on a gas hob (4) 56d. Instrument forming a peal with a lingering sound...
Good morning everyone - from a dreary South Oz ....started out ok, but has gone down hill quite rapidly since.....naturally, it's a long weekend, par for the course !! Hope the links aren't going to...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 12a. Albumen used for meringues and clarifying stock, known as glair when used in gilding etc. (5) 17a. Fragrant evergreen perennial used as a companion plant...
Good morning everyone - a bit dull out there, winters on its way, and boy do we need some rain - anything coming our way just hops straight over the border and drops on Melbourne !! Hope our words...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 12a. Botanical seed within a shell such as an acorn, filbert or conker, or a culinary word for a fruit or kernel such as a pistachio, almond, cashew or...
Good morning everyone - well our Indian summer seems to have come to an end today, just in time for a friend's outdoor wedding !! Truly you'd wonder if the gods really had it in for you, especially...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 37a Produced when neutron stars collide, the noblest of all the metals, which is used in gilding [4] 56a Grains of quartz, topaz, garnet, shell or coral...
Good morning everyone - it's absolutely gorgeous here today, and has been the same for all last week almost makes me wish i was holidaying somewhere over Easter ....we rarely get good weather around...
These were issued as units of 1000 shares. The interest paid is £128.75 pa, and stated to be a return of around 6%. This equates to a value for each unit of just over £2,000. But the value for each...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 22a Vessel used as a container for perfume, a miniature ship with sails, an SOS message or as a terrarium for small plants [6] 32d Material with traditional...
Oops! I almost forgot to do it this week. So I apologise for posting later than usual. I scored a healthy SIX out of seven on the adult quiz this week (helped by quite a few good guesses, I have to...
Good morning everyone - well we've had some lovely rain and a warm week coming up so the weeds will be jumping out of the ground very soon !! Pity flowers don't do the same :(( Now for the links -...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 15a Used for preserves, pickles and puddings, fruit such as an aubergine, avocado, banana, grape, sweet pepper or tomato that comes from a single flower [5] 42a...
It might be Week 13 but it's definitely not an unlucky one for me! My guessing skills seem to have improved quite a bit ;-) I scored a maximum SEVEN out of seven on the adult quiz...
Many years ago, late 1950s or early 60s, there was a programme about the golden years of Hollywood. It was hosted/introduced by Dick Powell. The theme tune was Chopin's Étude Opus 10, no 3 (So Deep is...
Good morning everyone - a bit warm and windy but it will cool right down in a day or so .....just as well, who needs a burst of hot weather just when you're breaking out the bed sox !! Nothing...
Here are today's shaded clues for you - 20a Used in cloud-seeding to create rain and associated with the moon, a metal originally forged in supernova explosions that also exists dissolved in seawater....